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Sequel to Crossing Over. In case you were wondering, it wasn't boring. Not so much a ride of a lifetime as a struggle to live for a lifetime, mind you, but even when it got bad, Dean and Sam never gave up so, of course, how could I? We found a place that we could rest and breathe, found out more about Heaven and Hell than I ever wanted to know, found something special. No slash.

Sam, Dean and June enter an asylum to battle a blood-thirsty monster spawned from purest innocence. Follows 'Third Eye Blind' in the Threefold Cord AU. AU Season 5, no spoilers. This is a rewrite of the previously posted version. My thanks for the original reviews, and my apologies that they were lost. A thank you again to BlackIceWitch for the wonderful cover image!

2007. John Constantine has returned to Los Angeles, chasing a rumour of a fallen angel on this plane. A Gate to Hell was opened in Wyoming and Dean and Sam follow a trail of demon signs into the City of Angels, reluctantly joining forces with the exorcist and psychic detective to prevent the demons finding what Lilith wants. No spoilers. No slash. Feedback always great!

Crossing Over 'verse. Season 7. For six months, Dean struggled with his feelings about Terry's choice and Sam struggled to find a way to help his brother deal with it. Neither really managed too well. Companion piece to Crossing Over. Season 7 references and spoilers. No slash. Rated M for language and adult concepts.

Set in Season 6. I was living a pretty normal life until two men, whom I'd been sure were just fictional characters, dropped through a set window on the television show I was working on and changed everything. I had a choice. A safe, ordinary life, or the ride of a life-time? No contest, really. There are spoilers for Season 6 and no slash in this story.

In the struggle to prevent the Apocalypse, Sam and Dean gain a long-forgotten weapon. Gen AU branching off from the final scene of S4's "On the Head of a Pin." Spoilers through end of S4. Sam, Dean, Castiel, Bobby, Ruby, OFC. Many thanks to BlackIceWitch for the lovely cover image!

13th story in Ramble On 'verse series. Set S7. Bobby's death hits Dean hard at a time when he can hardly find a good reason to keep fighting. When Ellie joins the brothers at Whitefish, the past intrudes unexpectedly, an old unresolved case that raises more spectres than one. No slash. No spoilers. Feedback appreciated.

S5/S6. They saved the world and all it had cost him was everyone he'd loved. In the nightmare-filled hours of the long nights, Dean sits in a suburban lounge room in Cicero and drinks to keep the pain away, memories coming back of better times, of worse times, of older times, of friends and family. No slash, no spoilers past S5. Reviews, comments, feedback appreciated.

Summary: By Steam & Iron 'verse. AU. Steampunk. John has found a new life in the village of Blue Earth, under the tutelage of experienced hunters and his boys are growing up in the life. Nothing is easy and the learning curve of a hunter is no exception but he's determined to keep them together, come what may. No slash, no spoilers.

Apocalypse Series Book 3. AU 2013. The Grigori have been shattered but a rogue archangel still hides from Heaven and the settlements under the protection of the hunters are facing peril as the world changes and the first-born monsters search for surviving populations to turn and destroy. For Dean, the choice will always between what he must do and what he wants. No slash.

Summary: 12th in Ramble On series. Dean's inebriated viewpoint and working things out. Set between Take the Long Way Home and Between Light and Shadow, Season 7. No slash, no spoilers. Reviews, comments, feedback welcomed.

11th story in Ramble On series. Set S7. Dean is running on empty. Sam's hallucinations and the mistrust between them, a not-quite-healed broken leg, his beloved Impala locked down and black-blooded monsters in every direction. Ellie's been gone for two months and when she turns up, his attempt to be totally honest backfires in a way he couldn't foresee. No slash. No spoilers.

S9 WARNING! There are spoilers contained within this story! This is the sequel to Silver to Charon, beginning with the ending of that story and incorporating all the episodes of S9 as it goes, reimagined and expanded in the same way. No slash. Reviews are deeply appreciated, comments are always welcomed.

Summary: By Steam & Iron 'verse. AU. Steampunk. In a world where techology has been regressed to Industrial Revolution standards, a man's wife is murdered by a demon. John Winchester takes his young sons from everything he's ever known on a dangerous journey to find the answers he desperately needs. No slash, no spoilers. Comments appreciated.

10th story in Ramble On series. 2011 (S7). Maybe too much had happened, too much had changed. Maybe what'd seemed too good to be true probably was. After seeing Cas, Ellie returns to Sioux Falls to give the Winchesters the ritual they need to bind an out-of-control angel, and finds that all her efforts to put the past behind her have failed. No slash. No spoilers.

Apocalypse Series Book 2. AU 2012. Sequel to In the Shadow of Dark Wings. The Winchesters don't get a break when the new ruler in Hell frees an ancient force. Whispers of a way to shut demonkind out forever keep the expanding force of hunters looking for the answers as they try to protect the scant population that survived the Apocalypse. No slash. Comments appreciated.

AU story. In 2010, an attempt to change the course of Destiny goes wrong, very badly wrong. Castiel, Dean and Sam are thrown into a world and a time of savagery and danger, a world where legend and myth were born. There is no escaping what each must face, but in such a different world, they might each find what they are seeking. No slash, no spoilers.

8th in Ramble On series. 2010-2012. After the attack by Raphael and Ellie's disappearance, Dean's hopes vanish with her. When the cage is opened, and his brother jumps into a hole, holding onto the devil, his promise to Sam is the only thing he has left. Then Sam comes back ... not Sam. Nothing is as it seems and what he wanted, it seems he'll never have. No slash. No spoilers.

7th story in Ramble On series. 2009-2010. It's been a hellish few months. Two of the Horsemen have been incapacitated. Two remain at large. When Ellie shows up unexpectedly, Dean can hardly believe it, finding himself struggling with feelings that have no place in a hunter's life, a renewal of hope and a promise for the future. No slash, no spoilers. Reviews appreciated.

Short story pre-series. 1999. Sam is tired of his girlfriends falling for his brother and decides to short-circuit the process by testing their reactions before he gets involved. No slash, no spoilers. Reviews, comments, feedback always very much appreciated.

6th story in Ramble On series. 2009-2010. As they struggle to find a way to beat the devil, Dean finds his thoughts turning to Ellie - and his worry escalates when the months go by with no word from her, compounding his grief and desolation at friends lost along the way and no clear path to saving Sam. No slash, no spoilers. Reviews appreciated.

Short story. Set S1/S3. What it is that makes a monster? The things that are different? Or the things that are the same? Dean and Sam meet two different kinds of monsters and don't recognise either until its too late. No slash, no spoilers.

5th story in Ramble On series. 2009. Lucifer has risen and Sam's decision to stop hunting has left Dean on his own. To his surprise, he's found that he likes it that way. In Manhattan, he runs into Ellie, both hunting soul-drinkers in the city that never sleeps. When Dean suggests they team up, he realises too late that it might change everything. No slash. No spoilers.

AU story 2010. Dean Winchester thought he was doing the right thing when he left his brother alone, but he was wrong. Pestilence spreads a new virus over the world and Dean struggles to gather the few survivors in a place of safety, train them to fight and give him a chance to save Sam, and the world, from the Devil. No slash. No spoilers. Comments always appreciated.

4th story in Ramble On series. 2008. Dean has been raised from Hell and reunited with his brother. When the angel, Castiel, tells them they must save a Seal from being broken, the last person he ever expects to see again is there on the same mission. The question of Heaven's involvement is no longer a question and there are traitors everywhere. No slash. No spoilers.

2012. S8 spoilers. Cas disappeared. He was alone. And every monster he'd ever killed was somewhere in here with him. Dean's year in Purgatory started out as a struggle for survival. When he met the vampire, it became a struggle with himself. Looking for the way out, he found truth in the purity of hunting. Follows S8 to 8x02, then diverges. No slash. Feedback appreciated.

Pre-series sequel to Journey Into Darkness (currently under revision). John Winchester's life was shattered when his family was attacked by an evil he could not have imagined. Mourning his wife and terrified for his sons, he hunts for the things in the dark, knowing that one day, he will learn enough to take his revenge for what he lost. No slash. No spoilers.

3rd story in Ramble On series. 2007. Heaven's conspiracy with Hell is a secret known only to angels, and can't be revealed or stopped. Over the course of Dean's last year, Ellie finds a way to break the contract that Hell holds over him, and Dean and Sam are forced to trust in a demon's word, only to find that nothing can stop the destiny that waits for them. No slash.

2nd story in Ramble On series. 2007. It was supposed to be a demon hunt to get information Dean and Sam needed about what was hunting them. Waiting in the dark, Dean finds someone he can talk to, Ellie discovers more than she thought she'd wanted to know and an old demon gives them a lead to a gate that has already claimed one hunter's life. No slash. No spoilers.

Ramble On 'verse. Set S2. Dean and Sam are getting the feeling that demonic forces are getting more and more prevalent, a feeling confirmed when they take on a job and find themselves targeted. An enigmatic hunter with an unforeseen link to their past helps out in time of need. No slash. No spoilers. Revised from original version. First story in series.

S4. Tag to On The Head of a Pin. Anna had told him that he didn't know what sorry was, because he couldn't feel it. Castiel reaches out to the soul he raised from Hell and learns what it is to be human, with all the frailties and all the strengths he'd never imagined. No slash. No spoilers.

S4. What was the importance of the joining of the bloodlines of the Winchesters and Campbells? Why was Heaven so insistent that it happen? Bobby introduces Castiel to whiskey and Cas tells Bobby one of Heaven's many secrets on a dark, stormy night in Sioux Falls. No spoilers. No slash.

S3/4. It would've been easier if Dean had been dead, but he wasn't. Buried in a field in Illinois, his soul was not at rest and for Sam and Bobby, the days and weeks and months that followed were an unbearable struggle to find a way to get him out or find a way to accept that nothing would be the same and their pain would never diminish. No slash. No spoilers.